BSOD 0x124 Preventing me from updating nvidia graphics driver

[MrBulbs]

Alright, story time. This computer had a blue screen problem ever since got this computer from a friend 2 years ago. Sometimes it blue screens 5 or 6 times a day or it blue screens 1 or 2 times a week, even though my schedule is relatively the same. Gaming, Youtube, etc, 8-12 hours a day. It hasn't been much of a issue, so I just dealt with it.

A couple days ago I decided I would try to fix it by updating drivers and such, that I have neglected due to random blue screens. I used Driver Booster 2 to make it easier and about halfway through updating the drivers, I got a blue screen. When I rebooted, my graphics driver just disappeared, my computer reverted back to the basic graphics driver. When I try to install a new driver, I blue screen relatively in the same spot. I have a nvidia graphics card, so I have tried using Geforce Experience, I downloaded the driver from their website and I also used a driver disc, but no luck. I have updated the driver in the past, it just took me a while and a lot of blue screens before finally getting through it.

My computer won't write any .dmp after a bluescreen, so I don't have a recent one. The latest one I have is from May 9th, but like I said, I have had this problem ever since I got this computer and the blue screen error is 99% 0x124, so hopefully those can still help. I have used BlueScreenView and again 99% of my blue screens are caused by ntoskrnl.exe, if that is any help.

I have tried a countless number of things these past couple days, running Google into the ground, so now I turn to you guys.

Lastly my specs.

Intel Pentium D 930 3.00 MHz
Nvidia Geforce GTX 650
4 Sticks of 1GB RAM
ASUS EMERY Motherboard (not 100% sure about this one)
x2 300GB ATA hard drives
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Please let me know if I missed anything, and thanks in advance.

 

[Laith]

Hiya and welcome to SevenForums!rb:
Hmm, this sounds like a failing GPU or HDD.

Run Furmark, if the temps goes too high stop the test.

Run SeaTools http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/313457-seatools-dos-windows-how-use.html

 

[MrBulbs]

Hey, thanks for your suggestions.

I tried and I couldn't run Furmark because I got an error that said Furmark requires OpenGL 2.0, which means I need to update my graphics card driver. That's the only way I could find, unless there's a way to get OpenGL 2.0 without the driver, I'm not really sure.

And I used SeaTools and passed on both hard drives.

It's possible that my motherboard could be the problem. Are there any tools that can check my motherboard?


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[Laith]

Hm, update the graphics drivers then.

 

[MrBulbs]

Well, I would update my graphics driver, but that's my problem. I get a blue screen every time I try to install it.

 

[Laith]

Then it is probably a failing GPU, can you borrow a friends GPU and see if that works?

 

[MrBulbs]

I used a nvidia Geforce GT 430 that I had in another computer and then I tried getting its drivers but I got a blue screen during installation.

 

[Laith]

Hm, can you re-install Windows and see if that works?

 

[MrBulbs]

If I update to Windows 10, would that help? Or do I have to do a wipe? I would rather avoid wiping my computer, if possible.

 

[Laith]

No, you can go ahead and install Windows 10 and see if that works.

 

[MrBulbs]

Well, I tried installing Windows 10 twice, but it failed, so now I'm going to wipe and reinstall Windows 7. After all that I'll come back and let you know if it's fixed.

 

[Laith]

Okay, keep us posted.